Jon Bean Email & Phone Number

Burnaby, Bc

Leading and managing the team that delivers training and Quality Assurance for BC Housing's contact center, supporting the knowledge management for the department and having a hand in change management and employee relations.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver is badly lacking in community and easy, heartfelt social connections. The first time I joined the Intention Gathering I recognized it as something special and started getting involved. In my opinion it's the solution to the problem of Vancouver being a "lonely city."There's an unmet human need for community in my city and most people think of that as an impossible problem. Whether or not a problem seems impossible is no reason not to try.This is a co-created, non-hierarchical event where the reward is thanks and human connection, and it's absolutely worth the work. Intention has been happening since New Year's Eve 1999/2000. It happened before I got here, and it'll keep happening after I'm gone.During my time with Intention so far I've mediated disputes, resolved conflicts, acted as the treasurer and done long-term financial planning, co-created our current knowledge management structure / planning documents, planned and carried out the transportation and logistics plans for a dozen festivals and events, led public speaking at the gatherings, facilitated many workshops and worked extensively with the "consent culture" pod on ensuring that our space is as safe for participants as humanly possible.Intention regularly provides me with greater challenges and greater lessons than any other organization I've ever been part of, and I've grown more as a person and as a professional through my involvement here than I can say.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Starting with a volunteer position in 2008, eventually I was doing strategic planning and budgeting, helped form the non-profit society and was a board member, was one of the two people responsible for the bank account and became the camp director / public face of the Teen Journey Society.We did rites of passage for teenagers and their families. We were relatively unique in the Vancouver area for the extent to which we involved the families of the youth who participated rather than just focusing on the youth themselves.I became an uncle to about 1,000 kids in the Vancouver area, many of whom are no longer kids.All of my involvement with TJ was volunteer work. For years it was one of the most meaningful things in my life.